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I'm a photographer, geographer and writer located in Warsaw, Poland. For over 14 years I've been trying to catch the beauty of the world around me and render it in my photographs. I specialize in nature photography although I have experience in photojournalism and commercial photography as well. If you like my photographs please write a critique or a comment. Thank you!

As you might have noticed, I've made some major changes to my profile and gallery recently. I've changed the structure of folders in the gallery a bit and I've restored my best shots to the Featured section. I've uniformed descriptions of all deviations, also adding links to my website and Twitter. Now you should have more consistent experience when watching either older or newer deviations. I've also modified my profile and added links to my accounts on various social media.

All changes are related to restoring my deviantART profile to its former status as a main hub where I was publishing photos and presenting links to other places where various aspects of my photographic projects were elaborated. I haven't been very active on deviantART in last three years, mostly because due to intensive research carrier at the university I was unable to process and publish my photographs on a current basis. That resulted in piling up my work on raw photos that needed to be developed, post-processed and published. Few weeks ago I resumed my work on old photographs and step by step I'm slowly regaining control over my photographic database. However, I still need to process over 11 000 photographs from the last two years!

I don't expect to deal with it quickly. The whole process will take months, I suppose. But I've already started, and that is a big step for me, considering that until now I have hardly touched any photograph taken after Spring 2014. I will be developing my digital negatives one by one, and the best ones will surely find their way to deviantART or one of other websites I publish my photos on. In the meantime please be patient and enjoy my gallery in its current form.

15th birthday of deviantART is a great reason for celebration, sadly spoiled a bit by recent controversies about changing name and pricing of the Premium Membership. Nevertheless it is a good opportunity to share (and discover) some facts and stories about deviants with a #deviantartistquestionnaire .

1. How long have you been on DeviantArt?It’s been 4 years now as a registered user. I joined in Summer 2011, although I’d been regularly visiting deviantART earlier. My first contact with deviantART was in 2002, when I saw some thematic Linux wallpapers created by deviantART users in some computer magazine. I wanted to look for more, but I had a dial-up internet connection and it was way too slow to display deviantART website in a reasonable amount of time.

2. What does your username mean?It’s my alternative pseudonym. I’ve been originally known as Lupus but when I was creating a YouTube account back in 2007 I wanted to have a unique username without any numbers and suffixes (and obviously “Lupus” had been already taken), so I’ve come out with “Vertiser”. I’ve stayed with that name ever since and gradually used it on various websites. Now I only use it on my deviantART profile and YouTube channel, and in most other places on the web I use my real name.

3. Describe yourself in three words.Creative, introverted, engaged.

4. Are you left or right handed?I write with my right hand but draw (and perform most of other tasks) with my left one.

5. What was your first deviation?Well, it was a photo of a lily in my garden, but I deleted it, so don’t know if this count My oldest still available in the gallery is a black&white photo of spider’s web on a thuja hedge.

6. What is your favourite type of art to create?I love taking photos so photography is my major discipline at the moment and the only one published on my deviantART profile. But I also like writing so it’s possible that things will change over time.

7. If you could instantly master a different art style, what would it be?I would definitely want to be composer and create my own music. Maybe not the type of art for showing on deviantART, but it’s the type of art I always wanted to learn and never did.

8. What was your first favourite?That’s embarrassing, but I don’t remember. Let me check it and get back to you in a minute… … OK, so apparently my first favourite was a portrait made by Khomenko:

9. What type of art do you tend to favourite the most?Photography, definitely. It is my favourite discipline and the one I browse on deviantART most often. But I also fave literature a lot (by the way, please check amazing poems by VioletRogue!) and I like both traditional and digital art as well.

10. Who is your all-time favourite deviant artist?I met a lot of wonderful artists and great people on deviantART and I don’t want to ignore or underestimate any of them. Nevertheless there is one person whose art I love particularly, and it’s ChloeClik . She is a very talented photographer, skilled traditional artists, a writer and an unique person full of energy and ideas who creates stunning art of any type. Please visit her profile if you haven’t already and I’m sure you’ll find something you like. Just look at this mighty lion:

or this wonderful view of the lighthouse in the Mull of Galloway:

There are dozens of other art works in ChloeClik’s gallery and they do deserve your attention! She also runs three dA groups with amazing, friendly and supportive communities, check them out as well: NatureWeb , SprinkleOfSmiles, CatCatalogue.

11. If you could meet anyone on DeviantArt in person, who would it be?I haven’t met any of my deviantART friends in person yet but meeting any of them would be a great pleasure

12. How has a fellow deviant impacted your life?There are a few deviants who impacted my life in one way or another. Always when I admire someone’s art it affects me somehow and changes my POV, gives me inspiration, motivation or energy, so I guess many of you have impacted my life without even knowing it But again, the biggest credit goes to ChloeClik whom I met on deviantART and who became my great friend. We shared a lot of wonderful conversations together and I’ve had a privilege to collaborate with her in NatureWeb group. She made deviantART an unique and important place to me.

13. What are your preferred tools to create art?My Nikon DSLR camera. Previously I used Konica Minolta digital camera, but Nikon represent a whole new level of quality. I use Nikon D90 camera with a bunch of lenses and I don’t plan to change it in the nearest future (although I always wanted to try Canon cameras out to check if they are better than Nikon ones).

14. What is the most inspirational place for you to create art?I don’t have a favourite or the most inspirational place to create photos, for every time I try to find the optimal place for taking the shot.

15. What is your favourite DeviantArt memory?When my photo of Old World Swallowtail won a competition in NatureWeb contest. I was really surprised and didn’t expect to win at all. Wining the contest gave me a lot of positive feedback and made me feel more confident about my photos.

I've been publishing my photos on deviantART for 4 years now. When I began in Spring 2011 I wasn't nearly as skilled as I thought I was, and now, after 4-year adventure with deviantART and 11-year adventure with digital photography, I know I'm not as skilled as I ignorantly believed I was.

While looking at my gallery I've immediately noticed some photos that didn't fit. It wasn't because of the subject, or time, or place they were taken, but it was because now, from a longer distance and different point of view, I can tell they were mediocre at best. I've been developing my style and a way of using post processing techniques, and unfortunately there was a certain time in my life when I had thought 'the more effects the better'. I've learned a lot since then, but by no means I've learnt enough. Still, I've decided to permanently delete some deviations I'm not comfortable with. I've cleaned up my gallery and deleted about a dozen of photos. I've left another dozen of photos I should have deleted, just to remind myself that I should be constantly trying to improve my skill.

I want my deviantART gallery to be a place where I present my best, or at least good, photos. It is possible I will be repeating cleaning in the future, but for now, I'm happy with the result and I found my gallery more appealing than it was with those deleted works. I hope you'll like it better, too.